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I have a RPI setup to track ADS-B. It pipes it's data to Flight24 and as such I get a free "premium" account. It is pretty amusing to be able to bring up a local map that shows all of the aircraft around you. I used it a couple of months ago to see why a chopper was flying low and making loops around town. Turns out (from the registration) I was able to figure out they were looking for methane leaks from old oil wells.

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I have a RPI setup to track ADS-B. It pipes it's data to Flight24 and as such I get a free "premium" account. It is pretty amusing to be able to bring up a local map that shows all of the aircraft around you. I used it a couple of months ago to see why a chopper was flying low and making loops around town. Turns out (from the registration) I was able to figure out they were looking for methane leaks from old oil wells. Archive: https://archive.today/ZHnfV

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It would be fun to set up some sort of low power (safe) laser type pointer that would have tracking so if you "selected" an aircraft it would point it out. Maybe a better idea is to modify one of those motorized telescopes and adding a camera to its viewfinder so you could just pick a craft and it would target and zoom in on it..

Then again. I am fairly sure I could not open-source something like that. It is probably against ITAR.

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Apparently there's a spot where people shine the green lasers at the airplanes because ATC warns them.

We are so close that it's easy for us to spot them and know which they are.